Man makes $10,000 in Diablo 3 real-money auction house

Agrees to pay taxes, too.

A Reddit user by the name of WishboneTheDog has been answering questions all night about his extraordinary $10,000 haul from Diablo 3‘s real money auction house. Averaging apparently around anywhere from 8-14 hours a day of killing, selling, buying and selling again, Wishbone posted screenshots of his PayPal transactions, revealing consistently hefty sales.

Being the good guy that he is, Wishbone is very keen to pay tax on his profits, which is, you know, nice. For more info on his cash-flow exploits, check out this Reddit thread. In more Diablo 3 news, character profiles are now live, allowing you to check out your friends characters, share them with others, check items and more. All the details on that over here on Battle.net.

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Had a quick flip through his posting history to try and find how long it took him to make $10K. Couldn’t find anything so I’m assuming since release?

So 8-14 hours a day (lets assume he took sat/sun off) for almost 3 months got him $10k? Not worth it.

he said he averaged 8 hours a day for 2 months, hitting 14 hours on some days. the important thing is he probably would have averaged 8 hours a day for 2 months. for the third month he said he put in a lot less, sometimes 20 minutes a day.

so let’s just say it averages out to 4hours. which is 570 hours over 3 months. that’s $17.50 an hour.

add to this the fact that he mentioned he trades on the stock market, which most likely would have been done at the same time.

so not only did he earn ~$17.50 an hour, which is waaayyy above minimum wage in America, he would be earning from stocks as well. and this is all doing something he really enjoys doing.

not worth it you say? I would say a lot of people would disagree with that.